01-26-2022, 03:14 PM
(01-26-2022, 03:07 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: I thought this might be kind of fun to look back at.
The Bengals played the Bills on January 8th 1989.
From Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1989 on January 7th the top song was "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison.
The number 1 movie January 8th 1989 was Rain Man.
The top 5 TV shows were The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Cheers, A Different World, America's Funniest Home Videos. Number 6 was The Golden Girls, so shout out to Betty White may she rest in peace.
In 1989 we didn't have widespread access to the Internet. We paid bills in person or by writing and mailing checks instead of online payments. We did our shopping in physical stores and malls were still popular.
If you wanted to watch a fairly recent movie at home you drove to the store and rented it on VHS and had to return it before late fees. Side note: In my family this was called pizza night where we would all go to rent a movie (and argue about what to rent) and eat pizza on a Friday as part of an end of week reward. You could also record a limited amount of TV on your home VHS but heaven forbid you accidentally record over one of the above named shows before everyone else got to watch it. MTV was still known for broadcasting music videos.
Anyway I just though it was kind of fun to look back at 1989 when the Bengals were last in the AFC Championship. I'm sure some of you can add a few more snapshots from then. I wanted to also include pictures of what was popular to wear then but got too lazy to look up the pictures.
and after arguing about what movie to get, finding out the store is out of copies of the chosen one and having to have that discussion again. Then of course getting home and realizing that the previous renter of the movie wasn't kind and didn't rewind
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